Vote.
Keep punching left I'm sure you'll win over those moderate Republicans any day now /s
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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Well this didn’t age well.
Hopefully we will learn to not blame people for their choice but just try to offer them something better.
In other words.
You can stuff their heads with memes and talking-points all day, get them shouting the party slogans in chorus.
But you can't give them the initiative to actually do something.
(Or to think for themselves for that matter. It rather contradicts the whole stuffed-head thing)
Yeah, punch left some more. Seems to work really well for you guys.
Yeah lets blame the voters, not the candidates for not exciting the voter base with actual solutions for issues
Unironically this.
If the threat of your neighbors, everyone in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and in Taiwan and Ukraine being killed while worsening the climate crisis and plunging over 300 million into fascism isn't "exciting" to voters, then those voters are sociopaths.
Most Americans are extraordinarily ignorant of anything outside of america. Shit a lot of people dont even know the war in Ukraine is still raging. The only thing they can really see is the cost of living, and we suffered terribly under biden.
Theres a video by britmonkey explaining how Americans became so ignorant
Can't wait for Trump to make that worse.
I’d have taken “not making abortion illegal nation wide” but I guess even that was too little for many.
I honestly think people just don’t realize how much worse it can get. We all get to see together now.
not making abortion illegal nation wide
Didn't we just have a four year democratic regime? What happened? Did they just forget? On Jan 6th, will Biden go "oh shoot! We were supposed to do something about abortion rights! Ah well, next presidency."
How do you think laws are made? There were bills and they got filibustered. Blame Joe Manchin for keeping the filibuster and blocking his entire party from passing it.
How is US law made?
The same way regardless of whether the democrats or the republicans are in power.
Ok, are you under the impression Dems would get help passing this abortion protection bill from Republicans?
You must realize that you have kind of an inconsistent view of the efficacy of the oval office. When the republicans are in power, or are about to be, this is something to be feared, and they'll turn the country into a banana republic, and they'll curtail all civil rights. But when a democratic is in power, the presidency becomes this meaningless ceremonial role that can't really do anything because of those darned republicans, and so you can't really blame them for not making any meaningful change. This is clearly internally inconsistent. One of these two opinions is false. Either the presidency can be used to effect meaningful change, or it cannot. You can't believe both.
I think the republicans show that the former is true. Whether you like it or not (I certainly don't), whenever the republicans are in power they're able to enact massive impactful changes (the changes which eventually led to the overturning of Roe v Wade are a good example). The reasons as to why the democrats do not enact such changes is up for debate, but the idea that they don't because they can't is demonstrably false.
This is a long-winded non answer.
How do Dems pass abortion protection laws without overwhelming control of the House, Senate, and Presidency?
It's not inconsistent. We see it habitually. Republican power is oversized in the Senate, House, and arguably the Executive due to structural issues caused by our bicameral system and the cap on representatives. This results in the GOP having a much stronger majority control over all three branches - added also that Republican politicians toe the line more frequently for the radical things they want to push.
It isn't an objective matter of how powerful or effective the Executive branch is, but also the power structures in the party in control. It is not a false dichotomy to think that Democrats struggle to pass impactful changes while on power, but the Republicans are able to do that more effectively while in power.
There "anti-electoralist leftists" are nearly undisguisable from those nihilistic radical centrists, except one likes to LARP as the Stalinist secret police.
Wow I literally just watched this episode
The burden of proof is on revolutionaries. Always!
You not only need to show that your radically new society is a genuine improvement (and won’t collapse into a brutal dictatorship) but also that it’s enough of an improvement to be worth the millions of lives that would be lost during the revolution! Furthermore, you need to show that the new society you propose can accommodate people whose ideology is different from your own.
Assuming that humans will all think and behave the same way has never worked throughout human history. Liberal democracy (and to a lesser extent enlightened monarchy) has been the only time period to accommodate diverse opinions, scientific and economic flourishing, and strong protections for individual liberty (and sexuality) simultaneously with a large population. All of the other systems were either very small (and so relied on the close bonds of kinship and inter-familial relationships) or dominated by brutal despots.
Thus, as much as we hate our current system for its many flaws, it’s so much better than everything that has gone before that the bar has been set very high.
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